In tinkering with my time tracking application, I needed to choose colors. I found a couple of sites that helped with that. I am not sure how well it turned out, but that is not the sites’ fault. Here’s the links:

Email security is always very important. The Google Operating System blog posted a great security checklist for GMail. As suggested in the post, you can head on over to Google’s security list first, then wrap up with checking the final list of items in the post.

Yesterday, I ran across a product called a GuruPlug while reading the comments for this article. I hadn’t heard of anything like this before, but it sounded like something our church could use.

Here is the thought: Our church has been having issues with the sound equipment going out. I wondered about using PulseAudio servers and clients to create a network of speakers throughout the auditorium. Using GuruPlugs would provide a cheap computer to hook speakers into.

The GuruPlug appears to run a version of Debian Linux. PulseAudio should run on that with no problems. From what I can tell, it looks like it runs about $100. Then, we would need a USB soundcard, maybe like this one. One of the comments mentioned someone getting it to work on Ubuntu 9.10 with no problems. Right now it is on sale for $17. Then, all we need is a pair of speakers, maybe like these for $5. This brings the whole client system to about $125, which isn’t too bad.

I found another person who looked like he was running PulseAudio on the GuruPlug: Linux Plug Computers as Music Servers. Does anyone else have any thoughts? Have you tried anything like this? Do you know of other devices that are similar?

Next, I added a repository with the “New Task” menu on the right side of the Tasks view. This walks through the wizard.

Step 1: Select repository type: Google Code

Step 2: Repository Settings

Project URL: http://code.google.com/p/project-shaphan/

Label: Project Shaphan (I believe this is the label you will see on the category)

Unchecked “Anonymous” (since I am the owner of the project)

entered user name and password

clicked “Validate Settings”

Clicked Finish

Yes to create a new query

Use a predefined query — All open issues

For some reason, I get the following error: “could not execute query”. Then, I found this Issue. The solution is to use the regular Google Account user name and password that you would use to login to GMail as opposed to one you would use to connect via SVN.

I am running Ubuntu Linux, and I installed Chrome from the Deb package. It created a shortcut in my Applications Menu. So, I went to the menu editor, and edited the shortcut for Chrome. I changed the shortcut from this:

/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome %U

to this:

/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome –enable-webgl %U

When I first started this post, the examples that I found didn’t work. But, when I tried tonight, this example actually worked.